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  Could this be an evidence that God exists

  by His Excellency in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3qezbvn1be.

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  @adamah

  On many points I agree with you. “social Darwinism” Is a dangerous way of thinking. The point from my side was that this is the way that earthly mammal’s has act (and not only mammals) during many thousands of years. It looks merely like it’s just only a function of life. The fact is that only In later days it has been obvious to us that it is not a OK way to behave that way. Humanism has during the last 300-400 hundred years developed to a much higher standard . The ideas of the Bible. Or Aristotle, or Galena, is no longer valid. We accept people that are disabled, have mental deceases or just don’t agree with our viewpoint. (of course not the JW,s who are shunning people that do not accept their way of thinking)… Perhaps you will understand more of this process of human development if you read some of the “enlightenments” writers. One of the thing they were very much concern about was “the evilness” of the “creation”. Reading them carefully you will understand that, they could not understand the way all these things happened to humans. But the evolution theory gives us the fact: it’s white in built in the human (or mammals brain) You hit first, if not you are death.

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  Could this be an evidence that God exists

  by His Excellency in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3qezbvn1be.

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  @Madgiant Whooou!

  Impressive and well done investigation. Your investigation truly shows the fact of evolution. Those who doesn´t fit, must be taken away. In other words only "the fittest survive"...

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  The Signs of the Declines

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  about the circuit i grew up in:.

  last decade, a congregation was dissolved.. last year, about a half a dozen or so congregations meeting in a double-hall got re-orged and it works out to one less congregation.

  they received all new territories, bodies of elders, publishers.

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  I see!? So now they are looking for vouluntary carpenters, plumbers, electricians and "gifts" to build all these "new strategies" assembly halls? when they are delivered by these "free voulunters", they could be sold with a great profit. It´s a brilliant business idea.

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  The Signs of the Declines

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  about the circuit i grew up in:.

  last decade, a congregation was dissolved.. last year, about a half a dozen or so congregations meeting in a double-hall got re-orged and it works out to one less congregation.

  they received all new territories, bodies of elders, publishers.

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  Here are some facts from Scandinavia.

  1.They have closed two assembly halls. And are discussing to close even another

  2. they have shut down branch offices in Oslo and Arboga and fired almost all persons who worked there.

  3. The branch offices in Estonia and Latvia are closed and moved to Helsinki.

  4. A number of congregations on country side have been merged with others

  Is the Soc. Increasing or decreasing its activities in Scandinavia?

  LOL

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  Most Irritating Thing About The Jw's

  by integ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for me it is the smugness.

  it's their inability and refusal to admit they are wrong....ever...even in the face of irrefutable evidence.

  isn't pride a sin?

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  Today I had a visit from un elderly brother. He had been a very dear friend of me for many years. I think he visited me to encourage me to take up service again and come back to the meetings. This in spite he obviously knew that I am un apostasy. For almost two days we talked about nothing. Then after breakfast he took up the very reason for his visit. It the end of times, very late, and all things were going to be destroyed in Armageddon.

  I replied that,: wouldn´t it have been better if god had made that 10-20-30 ýears ago, since the earth’s population is increasing with approx.. 10 million children, women and men every year. And that JW,s only have a growth of 200.000 – 300.000 a year. I mean that for every year god will have to kill 10 millions of people who have not the “mark”. He replied that he didn’t know what was in the heart of god and that he couldn´t decide who god will kill or not.

  I asked him but the principle is still that, all those who are not JW,s will be destroyed in Armageddon? He mentioned something that god Is good and no one knows what is going to happen.

  My question is, have the society changed their view on this matter lately?

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  Conversation with a christian today or: How the holy spirit got it wrong.

  by bohm in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had the oddest experience today.

  i was walking down the street and there was a group of christians standing in front of a boxcar nicely painted with their logo and website.

  they had brought loudspeakers and mixing system, and were playing some loud semi-techno stuff while they were dancing like crazy (literally, there was an old guy jumping around with an umbrella doing a rolling stones impersonation).. i did the only sensible thing and stopped to see what was going on and take a picture.

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  How could you be humble when you knows that god is with you?

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  About vaccination

  by juanvazquez88 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the other day, we (my df wife and i) take our baby to his firsts vaccinations.

  since he born, my parents-in-law ( former witnesses) .

  violated the prohibition of talking with us and there are more close to us than before.

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  I must say I´am in favour of vaccines. We have today almost destinguished deseases like bubonic plauge, polio and others, thanks to vaccines discoveries.

  One hundred fifty years ago, when nobady had acces to vaccines, millions of people died in their childhood becouse there were no threatment for these deaseses. Consequently mans life span has increased with more then 20 years. Look at the upraising polio epedemia in Syria, due to lack of vaccines. About 20 children has been discovered having polio the latest days. This a consequense due to the civil war there. We thought that we had destinguised Polio as well but when vaccines stops comming - polio is comming back. Sorry for those 20 children..

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  Most Irritating Thing About The Jw's

  by integ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for me it is the smugness.

  it's their inability and refusal to admit they are wrong....ever...even in the face of irrefutable evidence.

  isn't pride a sin?

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  Their absolute ignorance of facs.

  They wont listen, they wont hear, they wont look on facts that contradict their believes.

  I dont know if this comes from that they are just dumbheaded, or if it is that the Soc. have pumped their heads full of hay. Maybe their are just afraid of loosing their "status" in their org.

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  Proof of a Kingdom Hall being sold to a church!

  by Sittingstraight1212 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it cracks me up if you bring this subject up to a witness , they always try to convince themselves that i'm reading into this!!!.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqwknq31ie&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

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  In sweden I know that two assembly halls are sold. One of them strangnas was sold to un estate company. The other one( jakobsberg) is today a mosque. Unfortunately the ( Strangnas hall) was sold to a company that didn’t have the cash to pay. And this company made bankruptcy. I don’t know how much the society lost on this transaction. But I know that many brothers and sisters were disappointed. They had spent many month in voluntary jobs to make “the world’s largest” JW assembly hall.

  Today the congregations associated to “the world’s largest” assembly hall are ordered to travel 2-3 hundreds of km to a winter resort in the northern Sweden, paying for the Hotel rooms about 100 $ per night. When over 100 persons are coming to these circuit assemblies, the company that owns the Hotel is willingly to let their conference hall for free. That’s good business for the WBTC. Of course the CO,s and others that are the organizing people are eating and sleeping for free in the largest suits. This arrangement of course in done only under low season. But it is a money maker.

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  Can the jw organization be reformed?

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know that this has been discussed in the past but i wanted to get some fresh opinions.

  there are many out there that recognize the "rot" that is in watchtower but still feel that there is a "wholesome" side to it and are trying to bring about change or reform from within.. in 2002 when the rose colored glasses came off for me and i truly started to understand ttatt, i still felt that there was some redemable aspects of the organization.. i felt that russell had some doctrinal things right.

  i don't feel like that anymore.

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  I think I have to ad something.

  They way Jehovah is ruling the world could be described as a well known methot of ruling namely

  "ruling by fear"

  Bugbear